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Commencement Poems - Poems about Commencement


Premium Member Commencement Celebrations
Nostalgic about moving-on moments my mind lingers at throwback scenes milestones surpassing oblivion challenge. 1974... Kindergarten toga and cap propelled my steps toward big brother’s elementary campus midst anticipation of sumptuous recess-snacks. 1981... Triumphantly leading alma mater pledge I then saluted fellow graduates eager to roam along high school corridors. 1985... Absorbed by prepared valedictory address my heart could never stop tears, yet I...

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Categories: commencement, appreciation, blessing, encouraging, god,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Commencement Speech For Gods
we’ve taught you everything and more ~ but nothing can prepare you for man By David Kavanagh...

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Categories: commencement, allusion, creation, humanity,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Commencement
Commencement frees the sprit within Lurking dormant beneath our skin Sentenced to prisons they call school Liberation's rejoicing, spirit's fuel...

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Categories: commencement, conflict, freedom, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Commencement
A ticket, perhaps, to the rest of your life, And new kind of status' like husband or wife, You've dreamed of it coming, and now it is here, The clan has all gathered, but is something *****? The future's wide open, your ship's safe at sea, But first port of call still seems fuzzy to me, Sea lanes mostly open, your...

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Categories: commencement, encouraging, journey, life,
Form: Quatrain
Commencement Speaker
At my college graduation There most likely was a speech, But my memory of whose it was Is simply out of reach. Yet today celebrities can claim Commencement’s greatest prize – All those celebrating graduates To bolster and advise. Surely Conan, Oprah, Ellen Would a nifty speech produce But I envy those who listened To a talk by Dr. Seuss. It was many years ago, it’s...

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Categories: commencement, graduation,
Form: Rhyme



Commencement Vote
That composition's dispose of consent so validation's placement of content the turf of undeniable distaff ~ complacency ~ that nothing's turning . . . flat! What time be errant, as a scoffing's path, forever scolding, no change, favored last, no vote, no compromise, arguing's math decision's intervention, lags with wrath! I cast the lot, ascension so comprise in legislative searching, legal draft one summaries allegation,...

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Categories: commencement, america, change, society, voice,
Form: Monorhyme
Commencement
They laughed at one another as they threw their mortar boards aloft, and dared to kiss the girl goodbye, though she had spurned them in the dry years underneath the towers, Now boys no more, and war much brighter than their lust for adolescent loveliness, the bus and train will take them to a new...

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Categories: commencement, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Commencement
You ask me if I want a latte And I ask you to please rip your face off this time Because I can hear the light inside you Dying to get out. Courtesy has become a sort of madness Unless it be wild courtesy: Running, hurling yourself Through the air holding a cup and saucer In the direction of a favorite loved...

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Categories: commencement, peace,
Form: Free verse

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